U.n. Helicopter Crashes

World News to Note

November 9, 2001

FREETOWN, Sierra Leone -- Recovery teams searched for victims off the coast of Sierra Leone on Thursday after a U.N. helicopter crashed into the sea. All seven people aboard were presumed dead, U.N. officials said. The Mi-8 helicopter crashed at about 8 p.m. Wednesday near the U.N. headquarters in the capital, Freetown, U.N. spokesman Farhan Haq said in New York.